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worth a pado. At that time, in Kajagaha, a pado was equal 

 to five masako.* 



Budha then said. Priests, let this precept be taught 



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eodje? ^-esw G q&cSo^zso ,yo pana bikkhu adinnan they y a 

 sankhatan adeyeyya yat'harupe adinnadane rajano, choran 

 gahetwa, naneyyun wa bandheyyun wa pabbhajeyyun wa 

 chorosi, balosi, mulhosi, t'henositi tat'harupan bikkhu adinnan 

 adiyamano ayampi parajiko hoti asanwaso. What priest 

 soever shall, with a dishonest intention, take a thing not 

 given to him, for the taking of which the king having caught 

 a thief might punish him corporally, or imprison him, or banish 

 him, saying. You are a thief, a wicked person, a vagabond, a 

 robber : a priest taking such an ungiven thing is overcome and 

 excluded. 



Some time after this, a community of six priests, passing 

 through a laundry ground, took a bundle of clothes brought 

 there to be washed, and divided it among them. Some priests 

 who saw them afterwards, said, you are very meritorious 

 men,f for you have received many robes. They replied, 

 what merit have we ? We went to a laundry ground and 

 took a bundle of clothes. But, friends, said the others, are 

 you not aware of the law promulgated by Budha ? how came 

 you to take a bundle of clothes brought to be washed? They 

 replied, It is true that such a law has been enacted by Budha, 

 but that refers to goods in inhabited places, and not to those 



* A masako appears to have been the same as a £ ^ rid), i. e. the fifth part of 

 a rupee. The relative value of the coins may he considered as follows : A masako 

 is equal to one-fifth of a pado or rupee, a pado or rupee is equal to £ of a kaha- 

 pana or pagoda. 



t cgxx^ Js5<3 *■ c * having a great store of merit from good actions per- 



formed in a previous birth, the results of which they were then enjoying. 



